Talk to real people in real life.

Wenn du eigentlich eine Masturbationsmarathon geplant hattest, aber dann nur Filmchen runterlädst und sie in unterschiedliche Kategorien sortierst.

Das ist nicht meine Erfahrung.

Couch Coop am PC ist immer erstmal Gefrickel, geht an der Konsole sofort.

Kein Fummeln mit Einstellungen für die Grafik und Controller funktionieren auch direkt. Mit Windows oder Linux rumärgern und Treiber installieren oder konfigurieren muss ich auch nicht. Steam starten fällt auch weg. Zuverlässiger Ruhezustand und automatische Aktualisierung von installierten Spielen kommt dazu.

Auf der Konsole muss ich nichts konfigurieren oder einstellen, sondern kann direkt loslegen.

HDR and HiDPI screen support, color management, running old applications, drivers for lots of hardware and peripherals, availability of commercial software.

Lemmy is no different than any other social media platform that thrives on hate

💯Lemmy is dominated by leftist extremists and insufferable Linux advocates. Then there’s a large section of the mentally unwell. And a whole category of communities filled with automated copies of Reddit posts and zero comments.

Happy healthy well adjusted and successful people are not Lemmy. It’s mostly the lunatic fringe.

The modding of communities into echo chambers is more extreme than on Reddit even. Productive political debate is impossible here.

Excel is an easy to use IDE to run a business.

Outlook is far more than an e-mail client.

If you think Outlook is just email, you don’t know what outlook actually does. Can you book a conference room for a meeting with other email software? The integrated calendar and contact management is what makes it, especially in a corporate environment.

Microsoft did lots of shady shit to leverage their quasi monopoly on PC operating systems. However Microsoft Office was actually better than the competition in many aspects. The main competition for Microsoft Office was IBM’s Smart Suite. Excel left industry leader Lotus 1-2-3 in the dust pretty quickly in the early 1990s. MS Word was also better than market leader WordPerfect. Then in the late 1990s Outlook became leading and is still unmatched by anything else. Softmaker Office is the only office suite that still exists from back then.

If you do something you enjoy, you will attract other people who enjoy the same things.

There’s nothing wrong with this. A mediocre finished art piece is much better than the perfect one that’s never completed.

If you do art for fun and not as a paid job, don’t be so hard on yourself. Completing a drawing on a tablet is more than 90% of people do in their life.

Walk around your neighborhood and open your eyes to what organizations and institutions exist.

Try sports, gardening, making art, music, and look for shared workshops used for woodworking, car or bicycle enthusiasts, and such.

There’s also always the option to announce your own event, meetup, or activity.

More adventurous route: get addicted to drugs or gambling and then go to self help groups.

The electric energy needed by the ASDEX Upgrade fusion experiment to power its magnetic field coils and plasma heating facilities is supplied by large flywheel generators. An experimentation pulse in ASDEX Upgrade requires an electric power of 400 megawatts lasting 10 seconds, i.e. half as much as the whole district of Munich. Such an abrupt grid load is not permissible; so the electric energy for ASDEX Upgrade cannot be taken directly from the grid. Instead the flywheel generators gradually take the energy needed from the grid, store it and then pass it on to ASDEX Upgrade in a single pulse.

Your own time to research, build, debug, service, and troubleshoot your own build is a tax as well.

This. It’s pretty crappy in many ways.

I will see if it’s possible.

Apple supports their phones for at least 5 years. iPhone XS from 2018 is still supported by the current version of iOS. As iOS 26 just came out, that means 8 years of software support.

MacBook Air M2, Nintendo Switch, iPad Pro, iPhone.

I was thinking about getting the cheap XBox Series S for some better gaming hardware. A used Xbox One is a cheaper option.